| This blog is written by XploreOrganics | 48 entries so far |
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Synthetic Products & Natural Alternatives #1: Great Resource - Pests & Weeds Factsheets
Here are a series of factsheets, brought to you by NCAP. They provide information on alternative...
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Synthetic Products & Natural Alternatives - Glyphosate Toxic & Roundup Worse
I thought I would start this Blog series as there are many differing opinions on Garden pest cont...
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Recreating a sustainable Eden in our own backyards.
Can we create our very own Eden? What tips can we share with each other to help create a more su...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #17: Simple Harvest Crumble
The is a great quick and easy dessert to use up over-ripe fruit and berries. Served hot wi...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #16: My version of Chinese
Fried Rice 4 Cups pre-cooked rice4 Chopped green onions1 egg1tsp sea salt3 tbs sunflower o...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #15: Harvest Pot-roast
Pot-roast chicken for 2 There is no real recipe but this is one of my favorite meals when ...
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2008 Garden Diary - XO #3: Harvesting a few veggies
The garden was not as successful as I would have liked this year. My spinach bolted due to an ea...
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Garden critters #4: Spider webs and fuzzy critter
Early morning due allows me to get some nice shots of the amazing craftsmenship of the spiders we...
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Wild Berries #2: Well not wild, but in my garden now.
I purchased this high-bush blueberry this spring, the berries are much much larger than our w...
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My Macro Shots #3: Assorted August Flowers
Here are a few more flowers in my garden right now. An anual I planted from seed in the memori...
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My Macro Shots #2: Daylily assortment
Last year I ordered the mixed daylilies for naturalizing from Veseys, however when they arrived m...
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My Macro Shots #1: Raindrops on roses...
Just a few more pics of what is blooming in the garden now.
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More Blooms
My Soapwort has taken over a nice portion of my front rock wall. Star-of-Bethlehem (Or...
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A Tour Of My Garden #2: Part 2
Part 5: Part 6: Part 7: Part 8: Thanks for joining me :)
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A Tour Of My Garden #1: Grab a cup of tea and come with me....
This is the first time I have attempted to take a video with the little digital camera, I had to ...
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2008 Garden Diary - XO #2: Whats Blooming in June
Our front garden consists of everything from daylilies, columbine, mallow, sedums, phlox, cut...
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Harvesting 08 #1: My First Harvest - Radishes
Here is my first harvest from my square foot garden…crisp Organic Saxa 2 radishes. I won t...
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Harvest Time Recipes - Personal Care #1: Herbal Hairspray
Herbal Hairspray Many hair styling products on the market today contain toxic synthetic in...
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2008 Garden Diary - XO #1: Woodland Paths, Memorial Garden, Compost and Potatoes...Oh my
Remember to put your mouse over the pics for more info :) We have about 1/8 of an acre of fir...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #14: Chocolate Raspberry Puffs
Chocolate Raspberry Puffs For the pastry ( 4 large or 6 small) 1 Cup Water1/4 Cup Butte...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #13: Snowballs - A summer Treat
This is a great no-cook dessert for when you need a quick snack, served with fresh berries af...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #12: Red Pepper, Asparagus and Wild rice soup
A quick soup that will warm your bones after a cool day in the garden. 1 Chicken breast (b...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #11: Red & Green Rice
This is a quick an easy side dish to serve hot or cold with any barbque or to serve alone as ...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #10: Bring on the summer heat - Sunny yellow garbanzo rice with spicy broccoli curry
Garbanzo Rice with Broccoli Curry Serves 2 Garbanzo Rice4 cups cooked frozen rice2 larg...
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10 Garden Must-Have's
1. Ikea Bag A friend brought me a big blue Ikea bag from a shopping trip in Ontario. I think ...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #9: Sweet Baby Pepper Stir-fry with Long-grain & Wild Rice
Sweet Baby Pepper Stir-fry with Long-grain & Wild Rice I’m starting to get a lit...
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Wild Berries #1: Wild Berries in Newfoundland
Although we have a very short growing season and are limited in the fruit varieties that can grow...
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Organic Garden Remedies
Please post any organic gardening remedies below.
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Harvest Time...Recipes #8: Asian Noodles & Garden Salad
Asian noodles and garden saladServes 2 Asian Noodles: 1 Package of cooked and cooled lo...
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Just a few flower pics to brighten your day
Here are a few of the flowers in my garden: I grew a bunch of beautiful sunflowers by comp...
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The only soap you'll ever need
Why have a different soap for everything in your house? Dish liquid, laundry detergent, floor cl...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #7: Dairy-free Chocolate Pecan Caramel Parfait
A little treat for Valentines Day :) Chocolate pudding:1.5 C Soy milk (use regular milk if...
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Garden critters #3: The Slimy Slug
Speaking of slugs in an earlier forum I thought about our damp climate and all the slugs we h...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #6: Brunch Layer
This is a great easy dish to make ahead of time and even freezes well. Serves 4 6 Potat...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #5: 7 minute cooked dinner
This is a staple in our house…One day me and a friend were chatting on the phone and sh...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #4: Chicken burger on sprouted grain bun with spicy potato wedges
Today the temperatures reached 9 degrees here…wow, just last week it was in the -20R...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #3: Noodle Soup
This is a great quick and easy soup to ward of the winter woes: 6 cloves of chopped garlic...
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Raising Chickens Naturally
So you’ve decided to fill your garden with joyful chickens…Here are a few tips on rai...
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Garden critters #2: My First Garden Friend
When we moved into our new home I quickly realized that we may have bought this land but we were ...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #2: Harvest Cold Plate
Featured on this cold plate is: Mustard Spinach potato saladSpicy noodle saladDeviled egg ...
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Harvest Time...Recipes #1: Best Potato Salad
Even though we are no where near harvest time, maybe we have some left-overs from the garden or h...
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Garden critters #1: Natures best compliment
After three years of toiling to get a lush green biodiverse garden created on my residential infi...
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Chickens in the garden
Before we moved to our new home we discussed having chickens. We would get a few for eggs an...
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Winter Blues? Start Sprouting
Want fresh veggies now? Its hard to grow anything fresh specially here in Newfoundland with ...
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Seed Saving #2: Dont thow away that xmas paper!
If you’re not ready to run out and buy seed envelopes, make your own beautiful seed envelop...
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Seed Saving #1: Saving Seeds
There are many reasons to save seeds from your garden. Aside from biotechnology arguments th...
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Square foot gardening
I’ve been growing a few veggies the past few years on a mound of leftover soil in the backy...
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Growing garlic
I have found that growing garlic is one of the easiest gardening pleasures. I’m not into f...
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